The Glenlivet 1959 Cellar Collection

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 26 by Michael Jackson and Dave Broom.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson Nose Fresh bread, well-toasted, buttered, and spread with grapefruit marmalade. A vase of flowers: orange blossom, surely? Palate Complex citrus and apricot flavours, very tightly combined, as though anxious not to seem showy. Discretion in the British tradition. Finish Orange oil. Perfumy. Bittersweet. Comment Vivid descriptors, but the flavours are very restrained. A most elegant whisky.

Dave Broom Nose Heady, aromatic and beautifully intense with floral notes, heather, a little smoke, fudge, sultana, honey, pot pourri and a sweetly subtle polished oak. Palate Sweet, rounded and honeyed with macadamia nut. The slightly heathery smoke hits mid-palate. Complex, subtle and rewarding. Finish A hint of smoke, fresh, a touch of oak dryness. Comment No woodiness at 43 Years Old, instead incredible intensity and freshness. Truly remarkable.